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    "id": 1097161,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "dear friend of mine called Violet Wakeyo Wasuna. We were holding her funeral service today. That is why I was not able to come earlier. Otherwise, there are issues of interest to me in the Foreign Services Bill that I would have wished to speak to. I wish to indicate that I support this Bill that seeks to amend the Irrigation Act. The amendments that are proposed here are fairly minor. It is not anything major. They are amendments that seek to bring cohesion and logic to ensure effective implementation of the Act. With climate change, we need long lasting interventions. Irrigation is the way to go. I come from a semi-arid area in Suba North. Irrigation will be very beneficial to us, especially with the dwindling stocks of fish in Lake Victoria. It will enable us to diversify into agriculture. There are areas in my constituency where people have started small-scale irrigation but they are competing with wild animals. So, human-wildlife conflict is one of the things we need to seek a way of dealing with. Hippos roam around homesteads. For the first time, when I went to my mother’s and father’s home, I found footprints of hippos that are now living as though they are part of human life. Irrigation will also enable us to enhance food security. That is one of the Big Four Agenda items of the President. Sometimes most of us leaders may be well-intentioned. You may have an excellent vision but if you do not have people who share the same vision with you, it becomes very difficult for you to realise your goals. One of the things that irrigation does is to revegetate disturbed soil in dry areas like mine. It also has such uses as frost protection, suppressing weed growth..."
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